98.9% Spike in number of Waterford drivers caught driving without insurance

The Waterford/Kilkenny/Carlow Garda division was amongst the worst Garda districts in the country recording a 98.9% increase in drivers caught driving without insurance between 2023 and 2024.

Garda figures show that between Q2 2023 and Q2 2024, there were significant increases in the number of vehicles detained by Gardaí across every county under Section 41 of the Roads Traffic Act 1994 “from a driver without an approved policy of insurance”.

Ireland South MEP and member of the EU Transport Committee, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, will raise the price of insurance for Waterford motorists in the Transport Committee of the European Parliament and has called for urgent measures to address the spike in the number of drivers caught driving without insurance in every Garda district in Ireland.

 The Ireland South MEP has called for the immediate implementation of the Action Plan for Insurance Reform promised in the Programme for Government.

 Ní Mhurchú described the Garda figures, which are provided in a table below, as shocking. Galway was the worst Garda districts in the country recording a 199% increase in the number of drivers caught driving without insurance between 2023 and 2024. The Dublin South Central Garda district recorded a 166% increase and Kerry recorded a 115.7% increase in drivers caught driving without insurance between 2023 and 2024.

 Ní Mhurchú has vowed to raise the issue in the EU Transport Committee and will lobby her colleagues in government to implement the Action Plan for Insurance Reform promised in the Programme for Government.

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